Early in my career I would sometimes be told to not worry about making the code “nice” just get it working and move on. I would nod and just write good code like I always did, knowing it didn’t take longer than writing bad code, and would be much easier to modify and extend and fix later.

I feel like there’s a similar vibe coming with vibe coding. Just let the AI generate as much code as it wants, don’t check it because it doesn’t matter because only the LLM will be reading it anyway.

My gut tells me that

1. there will still be reasons for humans to understand the code for a long time,

2. even the LLM will struggle with modifying code last a certain size and complexity without good encapsulation and well thought out system architecture and design.